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Could Lexington get a lift from more music?

You hear a lot of talk in Lexington about how encouraging more live music and entertainment venues downtown would be good for the economy, and that’s true. It would improve Lexington’s quality of life...

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Quirky culture that’s all about business

Not far below Austin’s celebrated “weirdness” is a quirky streak of entrepreneurship and a passion for locally owned businesses. You can see a lot of it in south Austin, where old buildings are...

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Next year’s trip: Madison, Wisconsin

Commerce Lexington‘s 70th annual Leadership Visit next year will be to Madison, Wis. Woodford Webb, Commerce Lexington’s chair-elect for 2009, said Madison has changed a lot since the chamber trip...

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Why the Commerce Lexington trip is worth it

Many of the record 275 people who went on Commerce Lexington‘s 69th annual Leadership Visit go year, after year after year. They get ideas for improving Lexington. They make and develop contacts for...

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Guest post: An Austin perspective on CentrePointe

Here is a guest post from Billy Hylton, a 1998 University of Kentucky graduate who then lived in Austin for six years before moving to Chapel Hill, N.C., where he is a Web designer. He contacted me...

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Another thought on Lexington’s music potential

Steve Austin, who directs the new Center for Community Legacy Initiatives at the Blue Grass Community Foundation, formerly headed the “smart growth” group Bluegrass Tomorrow. He is one of those people...

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Austin shows us what to strive for

What kind of city should Lexington become? That’s the big question each year when Commerce Lexington gathers local leaders and takes them to another city in search of ideas. “Lexington is at a pivotal...

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Other cities look to Lexington’s successes

It’s human nature to focus more on what’s going wrong than what’s going right. I noticed that a lot when I lived in Atlanta. Except for its traffic and smog, Atlanta is the envy of most Southern...

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Back from vacation and trying to catch up

I’m back after a week’s vacation. Each year, several friends and I go to Bike Virginia, a five-day bicycle tour through a different part of Virginia. This year, about 1,800 of us were riding around...

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Passing of The Dame a blow to young people

As I watch The Dame on Main Street being demolished, I see a neglected, century-old building that could have been reused to give the proposed CentrePointe development more character and class. But many...

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